WISTERIA

[wis.te.ria] or wis.tar.ia n [NL Wisteria, fr. Caspar Wistar d. 1818 Am. physician] (1842): any of a genus (Wisteria) of chiefly Asian mostly woody leguminous vines that have pinnately compound leaves and long racemes of showy blue, white, purple, or rose papilionaceous flowers and that include several grown as ornamentals